Iran Shows Victims of Iraqi Chemical Weapons Attacks

Iran yesterday displayed victims of Iraqi chemical weapons attacks from the two countries’ 1980-1988 war to protest the fact that such attacks are not included in the list of war crimes prepared against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to Agence France-Presse (see GSN, July 9).

The war crimes against Hussein now only include chemical weapons attacks conducted on Iraq’s Kurdish population.

“I want our case to be presented to the court in Baghdad as soon as possible, just as Kuwait’s case was presented,” said Ameneh Ebrahimian, a survivor of a 1987 Iraqi chemical attack on the town of Sardasht who was involved in yesterday’s media event.

About 4,500 Iranian civilians were exposed to mustard gas in that attack, AFP reported.

Iran’s Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support, which organized the event, said that 45,000 veterans suffer from chemical injuries (Farhad Pouladi, Agence France-Presse/TurkishPress.com, July 20).

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